Longest marriages in rock ‘n’ roll history defy stereotypes

big wedding at all. Alice had been dating actress Raquel Welch, whom he’d wanted to marry, but she was burnt out on acting and wanted to go back to her kids, so she spurned him. Sheryl had a boyfriend, but he didn’t want to get married, so they wound up getting together. 
Alice almost blew it just before they married by taking drugs. “The day before we got married, we did a show … I drank a bottle of tequila, threw up, stopped drinking, then did some lines of coke, left for Arizona, threw up, and then took a nap before the wedding,” recalls Cooper. Luckily, he managed to rally for the ceremony, which proved not just a legal contract but an emotional milestone. Even though he wasn’t in the habit of saying sweet nothings, he knew he loved Sheryl and had no regrets. “I’m so lucky to have Sheryl,” he told The Freemans. 
The couple don’t have any children but they’re fine with that. They consider their show, with its theatrics and music like “Poison” and “I’m Eighteen,” to be their baby. They’re still together, even though Sheryl admitted she briefly broke up with Alice within their first year of marriage. “He was a real pain,” she told Australia’s Monthly Women’s Magazine. Luckily for rock and roll, they managed to get past that first rocky patch and have stuck it out for over 50 years.